Dr. Arindam Dutta

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Biography

Arindam Dutta is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology specializing in architectural theory and history. He obtained his Ph.D. in the History of Architecture from Princeton University in 2001. Dutta's extensive research focuses on modern architectural theory and its implications within the contexts of imperialism, globalization, and technology studies. He has directed the MIT Infrastructure Architecture Lab, proposing research that explores the macroeconomic factors shaping built infrastructure and architectural urban forms. Dutta has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, playing a significant role in shaping the discourse on architecture and its societal implications. His notable publications include 'Bureaucracy Beauty: Design in an Age of Global Reproducibility' and 'Modernism: Architecture, the Techno-Social Moment'. A founding member of the architectural historians' collective Aggregate, he employs a multidisciplinary approach to examine power dynamics in architecture through historical and theoretical lenses.

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Selected Topics Architecture: 1750 Present Technopolitics, Culture, Intervention Architecture Political Economy Development Systems: Intellectual Cultural History